Wasn't black defeating white mandatory for the human/troll kids on account of the reckoning?

It serves several purposes, but yes, primarily, the Main Session of a planet NEEDS to begin the Reckoning, so that the Meteors can be sent through to seed the planet in the first place. But on a Session without a Frog Temple, just started as one of many somewhere where SBURB was made widely available… I guess there’s no reason not to kill the King quickly.

That being said do remember- In the same way the King and Queen are tyrants, they are also rulers. They keep things in check. Take the King and Queen out of the equation, and you’re not freeing the people- You’re immediately letting the rogue agents who may have had ulterior motives run free without supervision, and that can honestly be harder to take care of than Royalty.

There’s also the fantasy of taking down the Royalty by yourself, even unprototyped the Rings can summon the Red Miles, and the Queens are total badasses, not to mention, have a Royal Guard. So it’s not going to be as easy as ‘oh just take the royalty by yourself pre-entry’.